Major 6/9 Chord Voicing

This colorful, mellower, less dissonant alternative to a Major 7th Chord sometimes serves a similar function…

Major 6/9 Chord Voicing

The major 6/9 chord sounds and feels just right as the tonic (I) chord in many jazz ballads and slow Latin tunes…

Skills Development

Using your ears and knowledge of scales and chord structure, play this Major 6/9 chord voicing in the big 12 spellings chromatically ascending…

Listen to an example at 120 beats per minute…

Play-along Tracks

Of the score above with a two bar count off at 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, & 180 beats per minute…

Playing along at a variety of tempos is a highly effective way to discover and tighten up every loose screw in your thinking, technique, and rhythm. As you do so, you are automatically internalizing an enormous chord vocabulary by ear, intellect, eye, and muscle–and preparing your musical mind to be a fluent improviser.

learn more… Jazz School: Chord Voicings: Major 7, add 9, add 13